Sparrow in wood burner

[Ashes_Firewood]

Found a sparrow in our wood burner this morning!

 

We have a cowl on top of the chimney but it has small louvres that it must have got in through. Must have been very determined to have been able to make it actually inside the wood burner as there is a soot trap below the flue outlet on the burner that I'm sure it would have fallen in to.

 

We don't have an inspection hatch so would have to take the fire bricks out to get it out if it hadn't made it's own way through. Just hope I haven't been using the burner when there's been a bird down there in the past

 

Anyone else found a bird in their wood burner?

[Al Cormack]

We've had three in the last two weeks - starling I think.

 

Changed the cowl this evening to one with mesh on it, to stop them.

 

Caught two in a sheet. Last one escaped into the sitting room leaving sooty marks in the ceiling [emoji35]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[se7enthdevil]

yep, we had exactly that bird (not sure of the species) in our stove which eventually worked its way down to the fire and thankfully flew straight out of the open doors. good thing it was summer at the time.

[Stubby]

Juvenile Staling .

[timbernut]

Thought it was captain black sparrow (coat already on)

 

 

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[peatff]

Young starlings get in everywhere, we had three trying to batter their way out through the greenhouse glass even though the door and roof vent were wide open. A friend of mine has just bought a wire cowl for the chimney as he has had Jackdaws down there and they can't get to release them without knocking some brickwork out so they took a few days to die off.

[Ashes_Firewood]

Now I've seen those pictures I think it could have been a Starling not a Sparrow

 

Thankfully our windows are tilt and turn so they open like a door. It flew straight out the window when I opened the burner door. Might have to see about getting on the roof and putting some mesh round the cowl if it happens again. I'd be surprised if a bigger bird could get down there as I would of thought this one would have been a tight fit to get through the gaps in the cowl.

[Clark282]

My friend had a barn owl....a couple years later he was telling me about it one eve, i went over and opened the log burner....and I **** you not there was another barn owl in there. Got a blanket, grabbed it and chucked it out the door. It was huge.

[sandspider]

Had a jackdaw trapped in our fireplace a few months ago. Big up close!

 

Managed to catch it and encourage it outside wearing welding gauntlets.

 

(I was wearing the gauntlets, not the jackdaw...)

[Stubby]

All the Jackdaws I have come across have been crap welders anyway .